Watch a rocket engine test live this afternoon

If you want to see something awesome this afternoon, watch SpaceX’s live broadcast of an engine test today at 3:00 pm EDT/12:00 pm PDT/7:00 pm GMT. You’ll see nine Merlin rocket engines power up to full thrust during a test for the upcoming launch of a Dragon space capsule to the ISS.

This is just a static test – hopefully the nine Merlin engines won’t go anywhere. To get an idea of the power behind these engines this is a test of just Merlin engine being fired at the SpaceX open house in Texas a year or so ago. Today, nine engines will be fired at once.

Check out the videos after the break to see just how awesome the Falcon 9 is going to be.

There is no PM in GMT. Test at 1900 GMT! Here in Indiana we still don’t know what time it is, we are in the wrong zone and only recently went on Daniel’s Stupid Time. As protest I use GMT.
Awareness of World Time is necessary is this global age. Business can’t run on confusion. If they can change the time, we simply can use world time and reschedule everything.

Awwww, bummer… looks like the test has been cancelled. I suppose that’s why they run these tests though!

Man, look at how fast they cut the entirety of their outward facing site: The live stream blacked out less than 5 minutes after the launch failed, and the twitter account is now protected. The main page no longer has a link to the webcast!